Grid Appliance Surveys

Survey #28: Grid Appliance Survey
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1. What is the highest educational level you have achieved?










2. What is your current occupation?








3. Please describe your background in more depth

4. How did you learn about the Grid appliance?









5. What do you know about virtual machines (VMs) prior to going through the tutorial?







6. What do you know about Grid computing prior to going through the tutorial?







7. What do you know about Linux/UNIX operating systems?







8. What VM software did you use to run the Grid appliance?










9. Where did you use the appliance?





10. How long did it take you to install this VM software?







11. How long did it take to download and run the Grid Appliance?







12. How long did it take to submit the pre-compiled demonstration described in the tutorial?







13. How long did it take to obtain the outputs for the pre-compiled demo?







Please skip the next 3 questions, if you have not attempted to submit tasks to the Grid other than the demo task.

14. What is the name of the application you attempted to execute on the Grid?

15. Were you able to successfully execute and obtain outputs from these tasks on the Grid?



16. If you answered "Yes" in the previous question, how many tasks have you successfully submitted?




17. How would you rate your overall experience using the Grid Appliance?






18. How would you rate your perceived effectiveness using the Grid Appliance as a tool for education / training in Grid computing?






19. Would you recommend the Grid Appliance as a tool for batch computations?



20. Based on prior experiece in installing software, how does the installation of the Grid Appliance rate?






21. What did you think of the tutorial?

22. What can be done to improve user experiences of the Grid Appliance?

23. Do you have any additional comments?